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February 8th, 2010

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Although Carrie Underwood did a fine job singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl, this offering by Marvin Gaye at the 1983 NBA All-Star game will never be topped.soul, national anthem, marvin ga...

Edgar Parker opened his dental practice in 1892 and found business was not that great. So he took his practice on the road and became "the P.T. Barnum of dentistry." Dentistry as entertainment?
Working in the 1890s...

Three years ago, Gail blogged about a bra implanted inside human breast tissue to take the place of an external bra. Plastic surgeons have greatly developed this idea since that time. So far, 600 women have undergone t...

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The Impossible Lamp is a work of craft and film by Jeeves Basu. It begins with a large wax candle sitting atop a clear plastic lampshade. Basu and his team had the difficult task of melting the wax so...

German photographer Josef Schulz traveled across the U.S., taking pictures of highway signs. He then photoshopped out the text, leaving only the shapes and colors. The series is called "Sign Out." Can you guess wh...

Cartoonist Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal is back with another explanation of how the world works. In today's episode, he argues that the personality, lifestyle, and biological features of an octopus make it...

Who says that old people can't dance? Here's The Awesome Threesome performing at Leisure World (a retirement community) in Florida.Check 'em bust a move (without busting a hip, thankfully) to Michael Jackson's Billie Jea...

It's not unusual to have a pet rodent, but Melanie Typaldos' pet Caplin Rous is no ordinary rodent. See, Caplin is a Capybara, the world's largest rodent: The second part of his name, which Typaldos pronounces like &...

I, for one, welcome our new hexapod overlord ... to a dance off! Here's a video clip of the best dance compilation from the 4th Hexapod Championship in Hagenberg, Austria.They'll eat the humans after building an appetite...

Rich CEOs are different from you and I - not only do they have more money, their brains are wired differently. That's the conclusion of an online "color test":Ask CEOs to pick their favorite color and what...

Forget James Bond! The best action scene ever filmed is from the 1985 Tollywood movie Alluda Mazaaka...!, starring the "Megastar" Chiranjeevi and directed by E.V.V. Satyanarayana.You'll soon see why Chiranjeevi...

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This is a true color movie, not a "colorized" one.
This wonderful film was made in 1927 by Claude Friese-Greene. Colour film from the 1920s is except...

The objects above are remarkably ornate baby rattles/ teething toys, as crafted by a master silversmith. They are attributed to Nicholas Roosevelt, an 18th-century American craftsman, and are now part of the collec...

James Stowe has a neat collection of Star Wars cards for Valentine's Day, which is this Sunday. There are six cards, one for each episode.
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We are often told we must learn from history, and that we should learn from the experiences of others, but how often do we learn about forms of government from scientific experiments? MIT economist Benjamin Olken got the...

A moonbow is a rainbow that appears in moonlight. Light from the moon must be refracted through a mist of water in order for us to see the effect. Photographer Wally Pacholka captured this effect at the edge of Haleaka...

Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test your familiarity with city nicknames. If you're lucky, your city will be one of the ten! If you're unlucky, you'll score 30% like I did. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs...

The Moa was the only wingless bird that ever existed.The moa were hunted to extinction by 1500 by the Maori in New Zealand. They were the only species of birds with no wings. But wait, you say, what about kiwis, emus, an...

British artist Rob Smith has some lovely wood carvings in his deviantART gallery. One of the most striking is this table that looks like it's melting. It's made of recycled oak and took him four weeks to make.
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The US division of the Boy Scouts turns 100 today. The movement began in Britain under the leadership of General Robert Baden-Powell. An American publisher, William Boyce, met a Boy Scout in London and was so impressed...

Remember the I Love xkcd animated music video (inspired by the Discovery Channel promo I Love the World, drawn by animator Noam Raby and sung by Olga Nunes) posted previously on Neatorama?Well, Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyl...